Sunday's TV Best Bets

9:11 AM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Written by

Mike Hughes
www.MikeHughes.tv

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE

Any film about Phil Spector - a brilliant music producer, a strange person - and his murder trial would be fascinating. But writer-director David Mamet decided to create his own reality. ...

Mamet doesn't claim this is a docudrama. He invents brilliant bursts of dialog, then gives them to some of the world's best actors. Al Pacino soars as Spector; Helen Mirren and Jeffrey Tambor are perfect as his wary lawyers. The result - whether truth or fiction - is compelling.TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II